It’s Family Time~The Holden Rushing Family

Holden Rushing was born about 1802 to David Rushing and and Nancy Rebecca Deason of Anson County, North Carolina. He was their second born child arriving after the birth of his brother, Abraham Darling Rushing, a year earlier in 1801. Holden was a member of a large family.

Sometime before April 1827, Holden Rushing married Delilah Burch Jackson, daughter of Jesse Jackson, Sr. and Delilah Meadows. 

Note: Anson County, NC Land Deed W:281 contains the following statement:  

Deed dated 21th day of April 1827; witnessed by Geo. Duran and J. Rushing Signed by H. Rushing and Delilah Rushing certified by the following statement: Agreeable to a order to us directed to take the private examination of Delilah Rushing the wife of Holden Rushing that she signed the within deed free & willingly without the control of her husband, acknowledged before us. 

After the birth of two children in Anson County, Holden and Delilah migrated to Perry County, Tennessee. There on 15 January 1839, Delilah gave birth to her third child, a daughter, they named Elizabeth Elander Rushing. By 1845 Holden and Delilah are in Decatur County, Tennessee and a son, Enoch Deason is born. By 1860, Holden and Delilah are in Union County, Illinois.

1860 CENSUS: Township 12 S Range 2 W, Union, Illinois; Page:#191/835 (Penciled); Line#4, Dwelling#1419, Family#1387; Holden RUSHING, Male, head, farmer, age 58, born in NC; Delia RUSHING, Female, Wife, age 45, born in NC; Enoch RUSHING, Male, Son, age 16, born in TN; Martha RUSHING, Female, Daughter, age 12, born in TN and David  RUSHING, Male, Son, age 11, born in TN and Wm. RUSHING, Male, Son, age 7, born in TN. [Listed as [Ruthin] on Ancestry.]

This Census is the last document in which I have found  Delilah Rushing to be listed within. Nor have I found any other document naming her within its content. 

[Note; Beware of on-line trees they have her dying in 1849, 1896 and other dates.]

Holden Rushing and Delilah Burch Jackson had the following children:

i. Robert H. Rushing, born abt 1829, Anson County, North Carolina; married Johana F. Nance, 8 Apr 1852.

ii. John J. Rushing was born about 1830 in Anson County, North Carolina.

iii. Elizabeth Elander Rushing, born 15 Jan 1837, Perry County, Tennessee; married Artentious Stinson, 20 Jun 1852, Cherokee, Texas; died 31 May 1878, Cherokee County, Texas.

iv. Delilah Burch Rushing, born abt 1840; married Martin V. Powell, 30 Oct 1859, Union, Illinois; died 1883.

v. Enoch Deason Rushing, born abt 1845, Decatur County, Tennessee; married Cindona Matilda Flaugh; died Apr 1870, Jonesboro, Union, Illinois.

vi. Nancy Ann Rushing, born abt 1847, Decatur County, Tennessee; married Pvt. Joshua Lafayette Misenhimer, 31 Dec 1865, Union, Illinois; died 3 Jun 1933, Portland, Washington, Oregon.

vii. David B. Rushing, born 14 Oct 1848, Decatur County, Tennessee; married Mary L. Lookinbee; died 21 Jul 1915, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California.

viii. William Pinkney Rushing, born 1 May 1852, Decatersville, Tennessee; married Malvina Overbay, 19 Dec 1877; died 5 Sep 1938, Jonesboro, Union, Illinois.

Holden Rushing died on 7 September 1878 in Jonesboro Pct, Union, Illinois. The death of his wife occurred sometime between 1860 and 1878. No record of her death or tombstones for either Holden or Delilah has been found.

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1. Land Deed - Holden Rushing to James Ratliff; 21 April 1827; Deed Book #W; Page(s) 281; Register of Deeds; Wadesboro, Anson County, North Carolina; 3 January 2019.

2. Land Deed - Holden Rushing to Calvin Rushing; 2 June 1828; Deed Book #W; page(s)262.

3. 1830 U S Census, Anson County, North Carolina, population schedule, Anson County, North Carolina, Page#70(Penciled), Line#12, Household of Holden RUSHING; digital images, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : viewed 1 November 2022); citing National Archives Microfilm M19, Roll 118.

4. Tennessee, United States, "Early Tax List Records, 1783-1895, 1837, Perry County, Tenn, Holden Rushing; Image 7 of 21, Tennessee Archives, Nashville, Tennessee.

5. 1850 U. S. Census, Decatur County, Tennessee, population schedule, District 4, Decatur, Tennessee, Page:#419A(Stamped); Line#32, Dwelling#150, Family#150, Household of Holden RUSHING; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 1 November 2022); citing National Archives Microfilm M432.

6. 1860 U. S. Census, Union County, Illinois, population schedule, Township 12 S Range 2 W, Union, Illinois, Page:#191/835 (Penciled); Line#4, Dwelling#1419, Family#1387, Household of Holden RUSHING; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : viewed 1 November 2022); citing NARA publication Roll: M_.

7. 1865 Illinois, Union County, Illinois, population schedule, Jonesboro, Union, Illinois, USA, Holden RUSHING; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed ); citing Illinois, U.S., State Census Collection, 1825-1865.

8. Select Deaths Index, 1877-1916, Images. Ancestry, (https://www.ancestry.com: 1 November 2022), State of Illinois, , Holden Rushing; Certificate number NL, Volume #1, Page 13, 7 September 1878.